The Political Economy of Pharmaceutical Underdevelopmen

医药不发达的政治经济学

• 批准号: 2888806
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: King's College London
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2888806
• 关键词: Political; Economy; Pharmaceutical; Underdevelopmen

Despite adopting macroeconomic reforms designed toimprove the diffusion of technologies and adoption of newideas, technological innovation has remained limited inSouth Africa. Consider innovation in the pharmaceutical andlife sciences sectors. Hailed as the largest manufacturer inthe continent, South Africa has long had the ambition to beindependent in its pharmaceutical production. Yet itcontinues to channel funds towards the Global North,importing between 70-90% of essential medicines. In thisresearch project, I will look to uncover why and how this is,examining how economic policies such as strengthenedintellectual property laws, fiscal restraint, and tradeliberalisation have shaped the development of thepharmaceutical sector within South Africa.The project will adopt a mixed methods approach deliveredthrough two phases. I will first conduct a historical study ofSouth Africa's post-apartheid transition, focussing on itseconomic reforms, before conducting a set of detailed casestudies. Each focussing on a specific disease area, the casestudies will explore how the economic reforms highlightedin the first phase have conditioned scientific attempts todevelop essential medicines; policy options; and the abilityof local industry to respond. In this way, the project willdevelop a causal account of how macroeconomic policyshapes pharmaceutical underdevelopment in the GlobalSouth.

尽管采用了宏观经济改革，旨在破解技术的扩散和采用新介质，但技术创新仍然是非洲的有限的。考虑药物和生活科学领域的创新。南非被誉为大陆上最大的制造商，长期以来一直有雄心勃勃的制药生产。然而，ITContinues将资金转移到全球北部，进口了70-90％的基本药物。在这项研究项目中，我将探讨为什么这是原因，研究了诸如加强智慧财产法，财政限制和贸易自由主义者之类的经济政策如何塑造了南非境内的制药部门的发展。该项目将采用两个阶段的混合方法。在进行一组详细的案例之前，我将首先对非洲的非洲后种族隔离过渡进行历史研究，重点关注其经济改革。每个关注特定疾病领域的人都将探索第一阶段的经济改革如何凸显了科学尝试。政策选择；以及当地产业的能力做出回应。通过这种方式，该项目将为宏观经济策略造型如何在全球郡的宏观经济型制药不发达。